Items by Noel

• Try and keep up, fellas

  —Cold Fury

  “ALL THE NEWS THAT TIES US IN FITS” In the Old Days(tm), newspapers existed to keep readers informed of the latest events. But today, newspapers exist so readers can keep journalists informed. Read all about it! [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:44am EST
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• Tiger Woods vs. Tiger Wouldn’t

  —Cold Fury

  OBAMA SURPASSES BUSH ON THE FAIRWAY OF LIFE Somehow, this is Bush’s Fault. Gateway Pundit: “Barack Obama has now played 25 rounds of golf … That’s more golf than former President George W. Bush played in two terms, according to CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller, who tracks presidential trivia.” And they [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:01am EST
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• South of the Boarder-in-Chief

  —Cold Fury

  DESASTRE WHILE OBAMA SIESTAS Evo Morales is not one of the stars of “Desperate Housewives”. He is a South American Narco-Communist who is staging yet another plastic banana-election. Mary O’Grady: This is Bolivia, which in two weeks will hold elections for president and both houses of congress. The government of President Evo [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:51am EST
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• State of the Nation

  —Cold Fury

  IN A NATION OF STATES Victor Davis Hanson: I think not merely the thrill is gone, but a righteous anger about an Obama trifecta— of serial apologies and bows abroad, massive borrowing and deficit spending, and government-take overs of private spheres of life—is swelling up in the electorate. I haven’t seen [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:48pm EST
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• What’s Your Name, Little Bureaucrat, What’s Your Name?

  —Cold Fury

  SHOULDN’T YOU SAY and shouldn’t our vaunted “Truth-to-Power”-Press ask the question? Steven Hayes: Hasan: “The bullets of the fighters of Afghanistan and Iraq are a reflection of the feelings of the Muslims towards America. ” In the emails, Hasan appeared to question U.S. involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and often used [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:36pm EST
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• As Seen on TV!

  —Cold Fury

  Scott Ott: President Obama on Friday hailed the “amazing growth” in phony stimulus jobs, especially from nonexistent congressional districts, as a “sure sign that we’re seeing a make-believe recovery and an encouraging spurt in faux GDP.” … The president criticized his predecessor, George W. Bush, for “offering false hope without the fictitious [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 3:53pm EST
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• I wuz rong

  —Cold Fury

  AND IT’S HILLARY’S FAULT “Wrong, wrong, wrong” by John Howard: Until this moment I had not fully gauged the recklessness and cynicism of this administration. Bringing the 9/11 terrorists to the United States for trial in civilian courts is an irresponsible, dangerous and cynical act. But it is consistent with Obama’s [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:48am EST
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• Finally: The New York Times Adopts “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy

  —Cold Fury

  Number of comments: 2
  WHEN IT COMES TO GLOBAL WARMING FRAUDS, ANYWAY After reading the Great Warmal Fraud e-mails, the New York Times Enviro-blog sniffs: The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here. [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:57am EST
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• Vote Herman in ‘09!

  —Cold Fury

  “Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent ‘the people’. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth.” “Throughout history, the attachment of even the humblest people to their freedom, above all their freedom to earn their livings how and where they please, has come as an [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:23pm EST
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• Government by Lie

  —Cold Fury

  Number of comments: 2
  SEC. 2006. SPECIAL ADJUSTMENT TO FMAP DETERMINATION FOR CERTAIN STATES RECOVERING FROM A MAJOR DISASTER. Section 1905 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396d), as amended by sections 2001(a)(3) and 2001(b)(2), is amended— (1) in subsection (b), in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘subsection (y)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsections (y) and (aa)’’; [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 11:05am EST
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• If he gets the job, will it count as “saved” or “created”?

  —Cold Fury

  THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT KNOWS Candidate Grant Bosse: The Double-Zero are without a voice in Congress. Well, that’s unacceptable. Today, I am announcing the start of my campaign for Congress in New Hampshire Double-Zero District! The Double-Zero is a magical land. A mythical land. And place that only exists in the buggy databases of [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:56pm EST
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• If you think this blog is hard to understand now…

  —Cold Fury

  Number of comments: 1
  IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT if we wrote in German. Or in Japanese. I think we can all be grateful for der fractured Engrish we speak around here instead. And we can be grateful for those who made it so. I hope you’ve caught some of History Channel’s WW2 in HD. Almost [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:37pm EST
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• “You kids get off my White House Lawn–and get back in the Oval Office!”

  —Cold Fury

  Number of comments: 6
  THERE’S NO KIDDING AROUND IT “I’m even beginning to think that yelling at Obama for failing to protect America is like yelling at a six-year old for failing to make a dentist appointment, open a 401k and install vinyl siding on the house.”–Me, as I have consistently said. Noted child psychologist Dr. [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:30am EST
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• Fact-”checkers”? That’s not even fact-”chess”

  —Cold Fury

  MORE LIKE “PAR-CHEESY” The War on Terror may be half over (our half)…but the War on Sarah Palin’s Endlessly Fertile Uterus is just warming up! Sister Toldjah: AP assigns 11 “factcheckers” to Sarah Palin’s book – and they still get it wrong–with good links to Steyn and Powerline. Check it yourself. 11 fact-checkers [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:14pm EST
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• The Unbearable Eliot Ness-ness of Inspector Walpin: The Only Thing Transparent are the Lies

  —Cold Fury

  “WH documents were sent in error. Can you please destroy them? And can you confirm you receive this e-mail?”–AmeriCorps spokeswoman Ranit Schmelzer “Confirmed, documents were shredded.”–Acting IG Kenneth Bach, via CNS In a funny segment, Glenn Beck gave Inspector General Gerald “Gramps” Walpin a competency test on the air after the [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:26pm EST
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• Q: When is a bench not a bench?

  —Cold Fury

  I WAS TOLD THERE WOULD BE NO QUIZ A: When the bench is a deck chair on Rock Star Lines’ HMS Titanic Moral Vanity. Mike has the whole sorry story on the castaway’s ill-fated Three Hour Grandstanding for Gaia-Tour here. If not for the courage of the fearless crew, the minnow-sized moral [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:00am EST
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• Sarah Palin’s “Breast Panels”

  —Cold Fury

  Number of comments: 1
  YOU BETCHA’ I GOTCHA’ “He [Ronald Reagan] knows so little and accomplishes so much.”–a baffled Robert McFarlane, speaking for the Washington Know-it-All Class It’s the damndest thing; for a Stupid, Stupid Girl, she just keeps on turning out to be correct: Dick Morris: The panel evaluating the effectiveness of mammograms did not find that [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:41am EST
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• Dangerously Stupid

  —Cold Fury

  Via Rich Lowry: If the U.S. captures Osama bin Laden, there’s no need to interrogate him, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday. No need. Another 9/11 plot in progress? Whatever. Not important. The names of his operatives? That’s personal. He has privacy rights, you know. Sen. Patrick Leahy (DEMOCRAT-Vt.), the [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:51pm EST
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• Why They Hate Her

  —Cold Fury

  Number of comments: 4
  IT’S NOT WHY YOU THINK Newsweak’s Palin cover this month proclaims “She’s Bad News For the GOP–and For Everybody Else, Too.” ‘Everybody‘, Newsweak? Her legs are paying your mortgage this month, Evan. How does that make you feel? Like this? Liberals don’t talk that way about dictators like Castro or Ahmadinijhad, do [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:52pm EST
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• Sprechen Sie Germish?

  —Cold Fury

  SEIG HOPENCHANGE The Germans who contributed to Obama’s campaign and probably voted for him feel cheated. It seems another dishonest leader who made promises in Berlin has lied to them yet again: Jim Geraghty: Der Speigel: “Barack Obama cast himself as a “citizen of the world” when he delivered his well-received campaign speech [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:29pm EST
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• Mushing While Blushing: a Rogue in Rouge

  —Cold Fury

  “Where the river is winding, Big nuggets they’re finding. North to Alaska, They’re goin’ North, the rush is on.”–Johnny Horton, “North to Alaska”, 1960 “If you talk to women in America, they will tell you that there are still men who have a lot of old-fashioned ideas about the role of women in society.”–Pres. [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:15am EST
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• Socialized Terrorism: The Moral Hazard

  —Cold Fury

  Number of comments: 1
  SOCIALIZING THE RISKS, PRIVATIZING THE REWARDS “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”–Joe the Gumment Burglar Something’s being spread around alright–but it isn’t wealth. Steyn: Captain Surman told investigators that Hasan had formally contacted military prosecutors to report patients he was evaluating, according to people briefed on the exchange. [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:00am EST
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• Fictional Congress, Fictional Congressional Districts

  —Cold Fury

  SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW COALITION Pres. Silky Hussein Unicorn saves and creates several new and previously unknown districts…so that’s where the jobs went! Mark Steyn: I like to think of it as somewhere up around the Fourth Connecticut Lake or the Indian Stream by the old bootlegging routes in from Quebec. I drive [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:12am EST
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• Q: If They’re Social Engineers…

  —Cold Fury

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  HOW COME THEY DON’T HAVE ENGINEERING DEGREES? A: Because Social Engineering is a Liberal Art. Doc Zero: A strictly financial argument for conservatism never makes much progress with the electorate, because liberalism is presented as an explicitly moral enterprise. This is one of the big reasons it is never held to account [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:21pm EST
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• The Fierce Urgency of “Later”

  —Cold Fury

  DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL-TERRORISM The King has commanded Congress to stand down, and not to turn the Ft. Hood investigation into a political circus, because the one already being conducted in New York’s courtrooms is already enough. Rep. Peter Hoekstra: In the days after the Fort Hood shooting, I was denied the [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:59pm EST
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• The People of the People’s Republic vs. America

  —Cold Fury

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  AMERICA ON TRIAL, DAY 4 Q: “How can we leak all our secrets to the terrorists and even have it called “the rule of law” rather than treason?” A: By saying this: “I’m absolutely convinced that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will be subject to the most exacting demands of justice. The American people [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:15am EST
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• A Pair of ‘Noids, Styled: Hillary and Her Terrorist

  —Cold Fury

  THE PROJECTION PROJECT Coming Soon to a Courthouse Near You! The other day, Frank “Shovel-Ready” Rich accused Republicans of being “Stalinists” for “purging” Dede Scozzadomeafavor–you know, like Democrats did with their VP pick Joe Leiberman. In support-hose of his thesis, Rich quoted historian Richard Hofstadter, who wrote a book called The Paranoid [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 1:43pm EST
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• “Pinch” Limbaugh: “Following Rush’s Lead is What We Do Here at the Times.”

  —Cold Fury

  TAX EXILES ON MAIN STREET GLENN BECK: I was going to tell the story about who is moving out of New York. Because we said, you know, they start screwing with the taxes more than they already have, you just can’t afford to do business in New York. So move out [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 9:04pm EST
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• “How to Greet a Japanese Emperor”

  —Cold Fury

  “FOR DUMMIES” by Ronald Reagan. Bush, Sr. got it right; the only time a US president should bow like that is when you’re throwing up in their laps. [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 8:12pm EST
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• The Multi-Cult of the Deja Vu-Doo: Death Takes a Federally-Mandated Holiday

  —Cold Fury

  BEEN THERE, DONE THAT Got the Burial Shrouds to Prove It That reminds me… of this; Mark Steyn, excerpts from 2002: The other day, Johnelle Bryant, an official with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, gave an interview to ABC News in which she revealed that Mohammed Atta and three other September 11th terrorists [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 6:23pm EST
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• Kowtow-er of Power: the New Jack Bower

  —Cold Fury

  Number of comments: 1
  AMERICA ON ITS KNEES, DAY 295 “Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.”–Tom Paine, “Common Sense”, evidently becoming more uncommon all the time “You tell me Mistakes Are part of being a young country, But that don’t right the [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 1:55pm EST
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• Craig Gregg, Roadkill along the Shining Path to Leader’s Glory

  —Cold Fury

  Number of comments: 1
  FIRST, WE SUE ALL THE BUS MANUFACTURERS… Atty. Greg Craig, Esq. was fired because his parents named him funny. What kind of name is “Esquire”, anyway? Just kidding. He was fired as First Fixer because he couldn’t make the sky green and the grass blue in Obama’s world. That is, he couldn’t [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:37am EST
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• Gypsys, tramps, thieves, rapists, robbers, murderers … and insurance non-purchasers?

  —Cold Fury

  ENEMIES OF ZEE STATE! Every once in a while Ace steps up and hits one out of the park. Like this: Socialism never attends a party without an escort of coercive state behavior. It is a historic fact — indeed, an economic fact — that as the state seeks to regulate and [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 7:49am EST
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• Emily Litella: “What’s all der führer over climate change, anyway?”

  —Cold Fury

  “NEVERMIND.” Or “Fahrenheit 450 ppm” “The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of villages warning of danger, ‘When night wolf swallows mother moon, there will be great famine.’”–P.J. O’Rourke “Night wolf swallowing mother moon” is a [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:37am EST
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• He is the Very Model of a Muslim Major, General.

  —Cold Fury

  Number of comments: 2
  CASEY STRIKES OUT Dorothy Rabinowitz: “We don’t yet know the motive for the shootings.” What a puzzle this piece of vacuity must be to audiences hearing it, some, no doubt, with outrage. To those not terrorized by fear of offending Muslim sensitivities, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s motive was instantly clear: It was an [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:39pm EST
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• Veterans Day Denial: It’s Not Just a River of Blood in Texas Anymore

  —Cold Fury

  WHAT VETERANS DAYS LOOK LIKE NOW Here’s my Veterans Day Question: which Obama Administration official approved of letting Hasan chat with al Qaeda? Or did the president approve it himself? Especially since the Pentagon now says nobody told them. And how can we expect Muslims to weed out their Islamists if the US [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:25am EST
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• CHENEY KNEW!

  —Cold Fury

  Number of comments: 1
  BOY, DID HE EVER! “When we get people who are more concerned with reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do everything they can to kill Americans, then I worry.”–Dick Hussein-Killer Cheney Item: A Defense [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 10:01pm EST
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• The First Terrorist Attack on America Since 9/11: Thanks, Doc Obama!

  —Cold Fury

  Number of comments: 2
  MAY I HAVE ANOTHER? Our Miss Brooks gets one right between the bloomers: A shroud of political correctness settled over the conversation. Hasan was portrayed as a victim of society, a poor soul who was pushed over the edge by prejudice and unhappiness. There was a national rush to therapy. Hasan was a [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:13pm EST
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• “Can of Worms”? That’s a 50-gallon Drum of Nine-Inch Night-Crawlers, son!

  —Cold Fury

  “BABY, BABY, DON’T GET HOOKED ON PTSD” Ah–who can ever forget the ’70’s song stylings of Mac Davis? But if you figure out how, let me know. I’m kidding, Mac, I’m kidding. Sorta’. Yesterday: UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) GEN. CONE: I think General Casey, as you’ve heard him talk, has taken this on directly. And [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 10:31am EST
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• “Something has gone seriously awry with this Court’s interpretation of the Constitution.” They Call it ‘Kelo’ ‘cos Those Judges MUST Have Been on Drugs!

  —Cold Fury

  “Thou shalt not steal.”–God Well, well, well. Looka here. Pfizer has fled the scene of the crime and the New London city government has been arrested behind the wheel of the getaway car. Mom was right; crime doesn’t pay. Do yourself a favor and read Clarence Thomas’ opinion sometime. Harry Reid says Justice [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 4:34pm EST
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• Fall, Wall, Fall

  —Cold Fury

  AND FALL IT DID Because it was pushed: “We’ve got to find a way to knock this thing down.”–Gov. Ronald Reagan, staring at the Berlin Wall, Nov., 1978 It’s a sad, sad day for the Obama administration. The president is so distraught over the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 2:54pm EST
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• “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

  —Cold Fury

  “On second thought, nevermind–I’ll do it myself!” [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:50pm EST
  by Noel

• BREAKING: Obama/Biden Junta Spies on Innocent Qaeda-American Maj. Hasan! What’s next? He’s the 21st hi-jacker?

  —Cold Fury

  OH. THE HUMANITY. Just in from ABC: U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan tried to make contact with people [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:53am EST
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• More “Diversity”, Less Treason

  —Cold Fury

  Number of comments: 3
  Rich Lowry: The Telegraph: “Fort Hood gunman had told US military colleagues that infidels should have their throats cut.” Also, the press has been full of PTSD stories this weekend. The media is basically inventing a new disorder to explain Hasan’s act—pre-traumatic stress disorder. Because Hasan had never been in combat, [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:25am EST
  by Noel

• Fire Gen. Casey and Hire Somebody Who Will Stand Up For Our Troops

  —Cold Fury

  This is crap: “What happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even-greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here. We have a very diverse army. We have a very diverse society. And that gives us all strength.” General Casey should be fired if that’s [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 7:30pm EST
  by Noel

• Even if ControlCare Were Free…

  —Cold Fury

  Number of comments: 1
  IT WOULD STILL BE WRONG because it will cost us our freedom. But you still can’t ignore the the Largest Charge Account Invoice in History. Doc Zero rips open the bill: Medicare originally cost about $3 billion, when it began in 1965, and was projected to cost about $12 billion by 1990, adjusted [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 6:33pm EST
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• Upside-Downsides: Standing America on its Head

  —Cold Fury

  SUICIDE OR TAKE A SIDE “If buttercups buzz’d after the bee If boats were on land, churches on sea If ponies rode men and if grass ate the cows And cats should be chased into holes by the mouse If the mamas sold their babies To the Gypsies for half a crown If summer were spring And the [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 12:58pm EST
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• The Pelosi Bill Was Rammed Through on Saturday, But Sunday’s Coming

  —Cold Fury

  WITHOUT FURTHER ADO We’ve got to hold on to hope, and we’ve got to fight hard because Congressional action tonight just put America on a path toward an unrecognizable country. The same government leaders that got us into the mortgage business and the car business are now getting us into the health [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 9:58am EST
  by Noel

• O Knows: “We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing.”

  —Cold Fury

  Number of comments: 5
  THE HELL WE CAN’T In fact, that’s the problem; we’ve REFUSED to know. We can fully know what leads a man to do such a thing. And saying we can’t is just another way to refuse. Geraldo “the Horse’s Ass” Rivera just tried the same stunt: “I think what happened in Orlando and [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:33pm EST
  by Noel

• Pledging Your Lives, Your Fortunes and Our Secret Honor

  —Cold Fury

  A NEW WORLD’S RECORD! The Gouverneur Times: GOUVERNEUR, NY – Congressman-elect Bill Owens was sworn in at noon today. Owens indicated in a press release released shortly afterwards that he was now in favor of the the “Affordable Healthcare for America Act” bill in direct contrast to his earlier position during the election [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:51pm EST
  by Noel